“M. Compayré possesses keen insight into the significance of the educational leaders and their contributions to educational thought, and both his critical and expository writing about them are most excellent.”
| + | Educ. R. 34: 536. D. ’07. 70w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 737. N. 16, ’07. 420w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 36: 636. N. ’07. 140w. |
Comstock, Anna Botsford (Mrs. J: H: Comstock) (Marian Lee, pseud.). Confessions to a heathen idol; il. from photographs, by Fred Robinson. †$1.50. Doubleday.
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An irresponsive confidant in the form of an ugly little teak-wood idol hears the nightly heart-confessions of a woman of forty. Even thru her puzzled wonderings there is the wholesome sanity of a well-poised woman who says, “life with all its blisses and sorrows, its ecstasies and commonplaces, is mightily worth while to us mortals, because, good or bad, it is ever and always so surprisingly interesting.”
“A refreshingly unusual and whimsical book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 24: 589. F. ’07. 550w. |
“The book has in it much to please and interest besides its rather thin little story. It is written with a refinement of taste and a distinction of manner that are to be found all too rarely in American fiction. But it lacks vital connection with life. It is pleasing, interesting, refined, but purely academic.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 703. O. 27, ’06. 350w. |